I noticed that the tax does exempt certain types of vessels, namely for commercial fishing. What I'm concerned about—and I come from an area of the country where lots of people come from around the world to go fishing—is that it doesn't exempt boats used for tourism. In my community, that would be indigenous tourism. Has this had an impact on tourism in Ontario and the type of equipment that tourism operators and small business owners are using?
On October 29th, 2024. See this statement in context.